[Jewelry making - Article 00035] - Re: [Orchid] Opal Stories and bad luck myth

[Dee Dee]

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    I've read that Opals were first associated with bad luck due to some
    timing with the "black death" plaque but I can't remember the full
    story. There is also this: 

    "In the nineteenth century, opal was considered unlucky due to the
    plot of a popular Sir Walter Scott novel of the time. The heroine of
    the novel has her life force caught in the beautiful opal she wears
    in her hair and she dies when the fire in the opal is extinguished."
    from the International Colored Gemstone Association. 

    http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/english/opal.html 

-Dee Dee


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